African Agriculture and Food Systems
WORLD AGRICULTURE FORUM | EARTH DAY SPECIAL REPORT The Dirt Beneath Our Feet Is Running Out of Time: A landmark global forum convened on Earth Day brought together soil scientists, agronomists and policy experts to deliver a stark verdict: the world’s agricultural soils are critically degraded, the green revolution’s hidden costs are coming due, and […]
Supporting Tanzania’s Agriculture Master Plan 2050 What Is This Compact? The Morogoro–Iringa Land Health Compact is a formal, multi-stakeholder agreement to coordinate action on land health, soil security and agricultural resilience across two of Tanzania’s most productive farming regions. Signed on 23 April 2026 and convened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) […]
A landmark legal guide published in 2016 set the foundation for sweeping reforms in Tanzania’s seed sector. From corporate licensing to farmer variety recognition, the framework has evolved far beyond its original architects’ expectations. Kilimokwanza.org — Dar es Salaam In April 2016, when a consortium of international development partners published “A Legal Guide to Strengthen […]
When the farmer behind the “300 kilos per tree” claim invites you into his orchard, the grass on the ground turns out to be the teacher. By Kilimokwanza Correspondent When Beno Mgaya tells Tanzanians that a single, well-fed avocado tree can yield as much as 300 kilos in a harvest, many listeners reach for their […]
It began with a cardboard box, a Finnish potato enthusiast, and a small Tanzanian company knocking on cold doors in the Netherlands. A decade on, Tanzanian avocados are the backbone of India’s fastest-growing fresh-fruit import trade. This is the story of how a corridor, three institutions and a generation of smallholder farmers built an empire […]
A horticulture farmer in Kibiti built something unusual — a quarterly gathering of professionals willing to sleep in tents, eat buffet meals, and reimagine Tanzania’s agricultural future together. This is the story of the SFO movement and the man behind it. By Kilimokwanza.org Editorial Desk | March 2026 | Bungu, Kibiti, Coast Region The road […]
The Netherlands-headquartered World Agriculture Forum has named twenty Country Directors across Africa, Asia, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas. The appointments mark the operational launch of its national Country Council model — and put nine African leaders at the centre of a rising global platform on food, policy and agri-innovation. By Kilimokwanza.org Newsroom A forum […]
By Kilimokwanza Tanzania’s agricultural export performance has been one of the sector’s genuine success stories in recent years. The value of export crops nearly tripled from USD 1.2 billion in 2019/20 to USD 3.54 billion in 2023/24. Avocado exports surged from 17,000 to 35,000 tonnes in just two years. Meat and leather exports are growing. […]
By Elizabeth Shumbusho Agriculture feeds Tanzania. And Tanzania’s youth — statistically — feed agriculture. Young people aged 15 to 35 make up 62.4 percent of Tanzania’s active workforce. They are already in the fields, in the markets, in the value chains. The question is not whether youth participate in agriculture. It is whether the system […]
It began, as many revolutions do, with something ordinary. Praxeda Melkior, co-founder of Migeto Farm in Kilosa district, had planted lemongrass — mchai chai — between her banana plants for the most practical of reasons: to keep pests away, to discourage snakes from settling near the homestead, and to sell a little on the side […]